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The Aces were formed as a semi-professional team in the Pacific Southwest Hockey League (PSHL) in 1989 and became a charter member of the professional West Coast Hockey League (WCHL) in 1995. When the WCHL was absorbed by the East Coast Hockey League in 2003, the team joined the merged ECHL.
A new team, the Toronto Arenas, wins the first NHL championship, going on to defeat Vancouver of the PCHA for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Arenas will become the St. Patricks in 1919 and the Maple Leafs in 1927. 1920: An ice hockey tournament is played at the Summer Olympics. It will later be declared the first World Ice Hockey Championship. Canada wins. 1923: Foster Hewitt calls the first hockey broadcast for radio, an intermediate game between teams from Kitchener and Toronto.